ban
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- noun
- Specialized
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ban
- Ireland Says Not in This Country: Bans Genetically Modified Crops.
Examples
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In a landmark decision, the Florida ban on gay adoptions was declared unconstitutional!
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Boats caught defying the ban on maritime trade could be scuttled and their crews thrown in jail.
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The company is happy to pay a ban of $15 per tonne.
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Recently, Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian university, just dropped its controversial ban on interracial dating of its students.
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When traveling to Romania, you can find items priced in bans, which are a smaller unit of the currency.
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A hundred bans equal one leu, making it easy to convert when shopping in Moldova.
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In Romania, the ban is a common denomination used in everyday transactions.
Synonyms
A small Romanian coin worth one hundredth of a leu
Compounds
- Formal
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An agreement where countries promise not to explode nuclear bombs to see if they work
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ban (money) comes from a medieval title ban, the name for a local ruler in parts of Eastern Europe, and the small coin was named after the official who issued it. That's why the money unit is called a ban.